I don't get the angst about story rejections.

[Emilymcplugger]

OMG, I just had a story rejected! What am I going to do? What did I do wrong? Why is LitE such an awful place?

Obviously, I'm being satirical. I did have a story rejected this morning for underage content, a retrospective musing where the MMC had lusted after the FMC just before she was of age. It was a very easy fix in this case.

What gets me about the litany of complaints about "Woe is me. Why was it rejected?" is that the rejection notice quoted the paragraph that broke the rules. It couldn't have been any clearer. Is this not the case with other rejections? I've had two other rejections, and the explanation for each was equally clear. So I'm having some difficulty understanding why so many writers - typically noobs - complain about repeated rejections and not understanding why.

Yeah…this.

I mean I’m relatively new here but I’ve faced two rejections over category and spelling and both were reasonable. One was because I wasn’t sure where to put it (ooh-er, madam) and the other over spelling as I tried to rush a story ending out.

It happens. It’s never personal.

 

[Djmac1031]

I do understand the frustration a little.

You've spent days, maybe weeks, crafting a story.

You submit it and wait.

Sometimes you wind up waiting a few days.

Then BOOM, it's rejected.

Your excitement is crushed, you were anxiously awaiting publication so people could read it only to have it sent back. It's disappointing for sure.

So yeah I get that. And understand why some may wanna vent about it.

Still, the only solution is finding out why it got rejected and working to fix it.

 

[PastMaster]

I think some of the frustration is also because the rules, which we use to guide us as we write, are not applied consistently. I've had stories rejected for punctuation in speech - literally a comma out of place, and yet there are stories published regularly that are barely recognizable as written in English. I've had stories rejected for Violence, when stories with far worse violence are published.
I've said it before, but people will continue to be baffled and frustrated when their stories are rejected; when they see other stories being published which break the rules that have been cited in their rejection in a far more egregious way.